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Barangay
Tambagan, Medina, Misamis Oriental is one of the communities facilitated by
Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Kapit-Bisig Laban sa
Kahirapan Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services
(Kalahi-CIDSS).

Tambagan
means “to be advised” in the local dialect. Legend has it that in the days
before the coming of the Spaniards when “datus”
ruled the barangays, there was once an old wise man gifted with the power to
give effective advices. He listened to people’s problems, personal and social
disputes and were settled through his effective advices.

Tambagan
is 2 kilometers away from North Poblacion or town proper and takes 30 minutes
to travel by local public transportations such as a single motorcycle or “habal-habal” or a motorcycle with
sidecar. The top three economic activities of the barangay are copra (dried
coconut kernels) trading, “sari-sari
store” and hog raising. The three major crops here include are banana,
sweet potato and cassava.

In
January 2016, a typhoon hit Northern Mindanao, including the Municipality of
Medina; Barangay Tambagan was one of the affected barangays. 11 households were
totally damaged. The natural disaster became a challenge for the barangay and
its officials having been also affected by the typhoon and there were families
displaced during that time. The damaged houses were caused by the overflowing
of a nearby river.

The
community was traumatized with this experience and caused them to fear it may
happen again. This prompted the barangay to seek assistance for a proposed
flood control structure from various agencies, this, however, did not get a
positive result.

When
the 2nd cycle of the DSWD Kalahi-CIDSS started, the community did not hesitate
to grab the opportunity to participate in the program’s activities, armed with
the hope of having their flood control structure funded.

The
community volunteers and residents of Tambagan supported the project through
attending barangay assemblies, and participating in barangay and municipal
activities which introduced them to process of Community-Driven Development
(CDD). They also attended capacity building activities to help them manage
their community sub-project.

The Community Volunteers and paid skilled laborers of Barangay Tambagan, Medina, Misamis Oriental work together to complete the construction of the DSWD Kalahi-CIDSS funded community sub-project – a flood control structure.

True
enough, with hard work and dedication of the community volunteers, Tambagan
became one of the 7 prioritized barangays for the DSWD Kalahi-CIDSS 2nd cycle
implementation. The community people were happy with the funding of the
Construction of 150-Linear Meter Flood Control Structure through the program,
as this was identified as their top need during the Barangay Participatory
Situational Analysis Workshop. The total project cost of the sub-project is
P4,252,929.00 with Local Counterpart Contribution of P18,000.00 from Municipal
Local Government Unit.

Leonides
D. Rañoa, 51, DSWD Kalahi-CIDSS Barangay Sub-Project Management Committee
Secretary, and is also the secretary of the barangay said “Dili lalim ang pag prepara sa mga papel hilabi na nga bag o pami
nakasinati sa Kalahi-CIDSS ug daghan kaayo ang porma nga usahay makalibog.
Kinahanglan usab ko mubisita sa area kung aha nakabutang ang sub-project para
mag monitor kung naa ba kini progress. Lisod tungod kai naa usab koy
kabilinggan sa barangay (Since I have so much duties in my barangay, I can
say that I had a hard time understanding what Kalahi-CIDSS is all about and
especially the preparation of the forms confuses me sometimes. I also need to
visit areas where sub-project was located and to monitor if it has progress)”

Ms.
Leonides took these difficulties as a challenge. This was never a hindrance for
her knowing that the construction of a flood control structure will benefit the
entire community. She became one of the instruments in gaining the support of
the community people.

“Ako ang usa nga mag-pahibalo sa council ug
sa mga katawhan aron sila manambong pag mag asembliya ug kung adunay mga
aktibidadis sa barangay, mu-contact ko sa mga 4Ps Parent Leaders aron
mapahibalo nila ang ilang mga sakop (I am the one who informs the barangay
council and the residents that we all need to attend the barangay assemblies
and other activities of the barangay, I even contact all 4Ps Parent Leaders so
the beneficiaries can attend)” said Leonides.

Construction of a 150-Linear Meter Flood Control Structure in Barangay Tambagan, Medina, Misamis Oriental funded through the DSWD Kalahi-CIDSS National Community-Driven Development Program

DSWD
Kalahi-CIDSS ensures that communities are actively involved in the process from
start to end. Not only are they given direct access and control of the funds
for their community projects, they also have the opportunity to participate in
making key development decisions for their communities.

In the
Philippines, CDD is implemented through the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan
Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services – National
Community-Driven Development Program (Kalahi-CIDSS NCDDP) under the Department
of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).

The
DSWD Kalahi-CIDSS and its community volunteers are advocating for
Community-Driven Development (CDD) institutionalization in the local
governments for the continuation and sustainability of its gains and empowered
communities.

The completed 1-unit Barangay Health Station community sub-project in Maribojoc, with a P898,276.00 fund from the DSWD Kalahi-CIDSS, and a P100,000.00 local counterpart from the barangay development fund of Maribojoc.

Access
to an efficient health care facility and care services in the Philippines is
one of the top priorities for our government; however, geographically
challenged communities do not always have access to such. Barangay Maribojoc in
Tudela, Misamis Occidental, is one of these communities.

The
nearest health station is located at Barangay Canibungan Proper, Tudela,
Misamis Occidental which is 5 kilometers away from Maribojoc and the nearest
trail to the area is to cross the Timus river.

This
changed when a government program aimed at empowering communities showed them
that together – through volunteerism, the community can work to have better accessibility
to health services and a comfortable health station.

The
Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Kapit-Bisig Laban sa
Kahirapan Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services
(Kalahi-CIDSS) National Community-Driven Development Program (NCDDP) helped
Barangay Maribojoc in their quest to provide their own community with a proper
health care facility.

The Community Volunteers of Barangay Maribojoc, Tudela, Misamis Occidental

DSWD
Kalahi-CIDSS workers facilitated a series of barangay assemblies and processes
to inform of the community on the possibilities of realizing a solution to
their problem. During the series of assemblies and other community empowerment
activities, the community volunteers of Barangay Maribojoc proposed a barangay
health station as a solution to their lack of access to basic health care
services.

This
lead to the construction of a 1-unit Barangay Health Station community
sub-project in Maribojoc, with a P898,276.00 fund from the DSWD Kalahi-CIDSS,
and a P100,000.00 local counterpart from the barangay development fund of Maribojoc.

Volunteers and paid laborers during the construction of the 1-unit Barangay Health Station community sub-project in Barangay Maribojoc, Tudela, Misamis Occidental.

Josephine P. Oracion, 51, of Purok 1, Barangay Maribojoc was selected by their community to act as the, Community and Monitoring Team Chairperson narrates the difficulties in implementing the sub-project “so far, sa pag implementar sa among proyekto wala mi na encounter nga problema nga dako nga nakahatag og babag sa among proyekto, mga ginagmay lang susama anang usahay ma-delatar og is aka adlaw ang delivery sa materyales (so far, we did not encounter a big problem during the implementation that hampered our construction, it was minor like a delay of one day due to late delivery of construction materials).

The DSWD Kalahi-CIDSS Community Volunteers of Barangay Maribojoc, Tudela, Misamis Occidental pose for posterity during the turnover ceremony of the community sub-project – Construction of 1-Unit Barangay Health Station. Josephine Oracion (right) 51 year old DSWD Kalahi-CIDSS volunteer, is the Monitoring and Inspection Committee Chairperson and Virginia Jawom (5th from right) is the Barangay Health Worker and volunteer for the Operation and Maintenance committee of Barangay Maribojoc, Tudela, Misamis Occidental.

The
community is hopeful that more people would visit their place and they will
embrace the DSWD Kalahi-CIDSS Community-Driven Development approach. Community-Driven
Development (CDD) is an approach that gives the community control of the
development process, resources and decision making authority and regarded as
the best assessors of the needs that their communities. The communities also
have the responsibility of implementing, managing, and operating the
sub-projects they have planned as well as maintaining them.

DSWD
Kalahi-CIDSS ensures that communities are actively involved in the process from
start to end. Not only are they given direct access and control of the funds
for their community projects, they also have the opportunity to participate in
making key development decisions for their communities.

In the
Philippines, CDD is implemented through the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan
Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services – National
Community-Driven Development Program (Kalahi-CIDSS NCDDP) under the Department
of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).

The
DSWD Kalahi-CIDSS and its community volunteers are advocating for
Community-Driven Development (CDD) institutionalization in the local
governments for the continuation and sustainability of its gains and empowered
communities.

The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program beneficiaries of Cagayan de Oro
City, like this is in Baikingon and FS Catanico, join the Vote Counting Machine
(VCM) Roadshow of the Commission on Elections of Cagayan de Oro City to have a
glimpse of how it is going to be like on election day.

The roadshow allowed participants to practice shading and feeding their ballots to the VCM, aside from informing the voters on the prohibited acts during and after elections.DSWD through the Pantawid Pamilya has partnered with the City COMELEC to empower the beneficiaries by letting them exercise their rights to suffrage.

The partnership is in line with the Bawal ang
Epal Dito campaign of the DSWD to ensure that the implementation of 4Ps during
elections and campaign period is free of political influence and manipulation
while safeguarding the rights of Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries for free and
honest elections.

Four (4) new units of ambulance are ready to be used by the four (4) centers and residential facilities of the DSWD-10. The vehicles are going to be used to transport clients with medical needs.

Cagayan de
Oro City – Four (4) units of ambulance were delivered to the Department of
Social Welfare and Development Field Office 10 last March 29, 2019 for the
agency’s centers and residential care facilities.

The four
(4) 70 Toyota Ambulance units were purchased by the DSWD Central Office in
Quezon City amounting to Php164,990,000.00 for the use of the Regional Haven
for Women, Regional Reception and Study Center for Children, Home for Girls
which are located in Cagayan de Oro City and Regional Rehabilitation Center for
Youth, which is located in Gingoog City.

These
centers and residential care facilities are temporary homes of individuals who
are under difficult circumstances and are under the custody of the DSWD. In the
facilities, they are provided with various interventions such as counselling,
therapeutic sessions, livelihood and, medical assistance and services.

To date,
there are now 15 women residents with 19 dependents in the Regional Haven for
Women, 37 residents in the Regional Reception and Study Center for Children, 23
residents in Home for Girls and, 65 residents in Regional Rehabilitation Center
for Youth.

Mari-Flor A. Dollaga-Libang, Regional Director of the DSWD-10, says the four (4) units will be of great help to all the residents who need immediate medical attention from time to time in hospitals and clinics. ###cpt

Thirty-five
local government units in Northern Mindanao attended the Department of Social
Welfare and Development Field Office 10’s orientation today on social
technology projects which they can opt to replicate to their own social
services for their constituents.

Social Technology is an innovative model of social welfare and
development intervention which utilizes theories and tested method intended to
improve social conditions and human behavior of the disadvantaged, poor and
vulnerable Filipinos.

Dr. Delia Maravillosa, Social Technology Unit Head of the DSWD-10,
says the agency is constantly advocating various social technology projects,
which includes those that respond to the needs of communities in resolving the
issue on drug abuse. Social protection projects that are related to drug abuse
resolutions include the Family Drug Abuse Prevention Program (FDAPP) and the
Strategies Toward Acceptance, Reintegration, and Transformation (START).

FDAPP is a community-based prevention program designed to educate
and prepare families about the adverse effects of drug abuse and it targets
parents, youth, and adult within the family.

On
the other hand, START is also a strategy that is focused on the organization of
recovering drug dependents or users who will later become the advocacy arm at
the community level and shall be equipped through the provision of the existing
basic, social and psychosocial services.

Moreover,
the DSWD has also developed the Comprehensive Intervention Against Gender
Violence (CIAGV) as its response to the rising incidence of violence against
women and children in the provinces. It helps improve the health conditions of
women, adolescents and girls through improved prevention, assistance and
reintegration of victims or survivors of violence. The agency, Dr. Maravillosa
emphasizes, is also advocating this project to the LGUs.

Mari-Flor
Libang, Regional Director of DSWD-10, also says that the agency commends all
the LGUs for making measures and interventions to address the need to help our
families and communities and that their program is apparently parallel to the
social technology projects being advocated by the DSWD.

As
its mandate, the DSWD responds to the emerging needs and trends that affect the
lives of the poor, vulnerable, and disadvantaged individuals, groups or
families under two key result areas: development of the new social welfare and
development technologies; and the enrichment of existing social welfare and
development programs.

On
the other hand, Director Libang also expresses the agency’s commitment in
marketing and promoting completed social technology projects for adoption and
replication at the local level – which are the local government units and
licensed social welfare and development agencies per Administrative Order 06,
series of 2016 otherwise known as the “Enhanced Guidelines on Social Technology
Development.”

Moreover,
the Regional Development Council passed the RDC-X Resolution No. 22 series of
2018, “supporting the replication of the DSWD’s completed social technology
projects,” which was forged during the 115th RDC-X Full Council
Meeting on June 2018. This paved way for the LGUs to adopt and replicate the
Completed Social Technology Projects of the DSWD.

With the target to place 16 children for adoption in 2018,
the Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office 10 revealed
through its Office Performance Contract Evaluation Report that it was able to
place out 19 children instead, reaching 118% against its target.

DSWD-10 installs Adoption Help Desks in SM Malls in Cagayan de Oro City to give information regarding legal adoption during the Adoption Consciousness Month in February 2019.

Aldersey Mumar-de la Cruz, Officer-in-Charge Regional
Director of the DSWD Field Office 10, said that this accomplishment shows how
much effort the DSWD and its partners have worked together to ensure that the
orphaned and those children declared as legally available for adoption are
placed in families who they can call home.

De la Cruz also says that the DSWD will continue to
intensify its advocacy on legal adoption, inviting potential families to
consider legal adoption as one of their options in expanding their families.

According to Sean Pamela Balais, the DSWD is also asking the
public to be very vigilant against simulation of birth, an illegal activity
that manipulates information in birth certificates which eventually affects the
true identity of a child. “We are asking the public to report these cases to
DSWD, or to their local social welfare and development offices. This is an
offense and should not be taken lightly.”

It is the mandate of the DSWD to protect the rights of the children and to ensure that these rights are being carefully respected by the public. xxxcpt

Consistent with its
mandate and functions, the Department of Social Welfare and Development
continues to improve its quality of services and systems, particularly in the
implementation of the Supplementary Feeding Program (SFP).

Over the years, the
clients being served by the SFP and that of other protective programs being
implemented by the Department have remarkably increased. The SFP and other
protective programs have been intensively implemented to address the social and
economic issues on hunger, malnutrition, and even poverty. One of the target
beneficiaries of the SFP are those growing children who are in enrolled in day
care centers across Northern Mindanao.

In this view, the Department is facing a great challenge in
ensuring that such increase of beneficiaries will also pave way for its
personnel to be more equipped, more resilient, and more knowledgeable in
implementing SFP, and how various system improvements can be done to ensure
that program effectiveness and efficiency are considered and prioritized.

Such challenge is addressed through the conduct of “Advocacy
on Supplementary Feeding Program among Protective Services Division Staff cum
Capability Building and Planning Workshop” which will be held on February
13-15, 2019.

According to Director Aldersey Mumar-dela Cruz, Officer in Charge for the DSWD Field Office 10, the DSWD is advocating the SFP in various external stakeholders, but such cannot be fully effective if its internal staff are not also fully equipped on what SFP hopes to deliver, what it hopes to change, and what impact it hopes to bring to the communities.” The SFP is now on its 8th cycle of implementation, and hundreds of children have been served, communities benefitted. De la Cruz says it is imperative that awareness of the program is strengthened internally so that the DSWD personnel may deliver the program effectively and with efficiency. xxx cpt

Celebrating its 68th Anniversary with this year’s theme as “DSWD, Katuwang sa Pagbabago,” the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office 10 highlights its recognition to its various partners.

These partners were recognized for their exemplary contribution in social development and social services to the poor, vulnerable, and disadvantaged individuals, families, and communities by supporting the Department in its implementation of its protective services and promotive programs in the Region.

The municipality of Medina, Misamis Oriental is recognized for its outstanding implementation of DSWD’s Sustainable Livelihood Program under Employment Facilitation model, assisting beneficiaries under the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program to land decent and good paying jobs that will sustain them economically.

Meanwhile, the municipality of Magsaysay, Misamis Oriental is also recognized for its remarkable assistance to the DSWD in implementing the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program in their locality. Their assistance included the provision of support in the conduct of the Convergence Initiative and Information Caravan facilitated by the DSWD, provision of logistical support to DSWD Personnel to smoothen the implementation of the program, and provided mechanisms in the form of standards, guidelines, resolutions, ordinances, strategies, and policies supporting the said anti-poverty and rights-based program.

The Ranao Women and Children’s Resource Center, Inc., a non-government agency based in Iligan City, is also recognized for its first level standards in the implementation of community-based programs and services for children, women and families in compliance with the provision of Section 23, Republic Act 4373 also known as “An Act to Regulate the Practice of Social Work and the Operation of Social Work Agencies in the Philippines and for other Purposes.”

The DSWD Field Office 10 works hand-hand with local government units, national government agencies, non-government agencies, civil society groups, and its clients and beneficiaries themselves. With the coordination and collaboration with the latter, it can realize its vision to have a society where the poor, vulnerable, and disadvantaged individuals, families, and communities are empowered for an improved quality of life. xxx / cpt